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breez
breez

Reputation: 75

python wildcard import

Strange problem when importing modules:

File structure:

pages/
      test.py
spawn.py

From spawn.py, if I do

from pages import test

everything works as expected.

If I do

from pages import *

I get

NameError: name 'test' is not defined

I don't get ImportError. I have commented out everything but two lines of code. I have init.py in the 'pages' dir, not that is should matter since I'm able to import just not use. I have tried changing filenames. Have tried on different machines, both Debian 6.0 though. Python version 2.6.6

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2365

Answers (2)

Jochen Ritzel
Jochen Ritzel

Reputation: 107608

You have to put import test in pages/__init__.py.

Just because pages is a module does not mean it magically imports all the files in the same folder. You still have to name the modules you want to import (or write code that imports them automatically).

Upvotes: 1

Dat Chu
Dat Chu

Reputation: 11140

It matters because the pages/__init__.py contains the symbols which from pages import * will import

Upvotes: 0

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